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Abraham Darby, in his lifetime called Abraham Darby the Younger, referred to for convenience as Abraham Darby II (12 May 1711 – 31 March 1763) was the second man of that name in an English Quaker family that played an important role in the early years of the Industrial Revolution.
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Abraham Darby estudou cientificamente a produção de latão e conseguiu fazer avanços nessa indústria que transformaram a Grã-Bretanha em um importante exportador de produtos de latão. Darby fundou o primeiro laboratório de metalurgia do mundo em sua fábrica Baptist Mills Brass Works, onde refinou a fabricação de latão. Ele desenvolveu o processo de ...
Darby combinou as tecnologias existentes de ferro fundido com latão fundido que produziu produtos de maior complexidade, finura, suavidade e detalhes. Isso provou ser importante para a indústria de motores a vapor que veio mais tarde, os métodos de fundição de Darby tornaram possível a produção de motores a vaporde ferro e latão .
Descendentes de Abraham Darby também fizeram contribuições para a indústria do ferro. O filho de Darby, Abraham Darby II (1711 a 1763) melhorou a qualidade do ferro-gusa fundido a coque para forjamento em ferro forjado. O neto de Darby, Abraham Darby III (1750 a 1791) construiu a primeira ponte de ferro do mundo, sobre o rio Severn em Coalbrookdale...
Abraham Darby was a British ironmaster who first successfully smelted iron ore with coke. Darby, who had used coke in smelting copper in Bristol, in 1708 founded the Bristol Iron Company. He acquired premises at Coalbrookdale, on the Severn, close to supplies of low-sulfur coal.
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Abraham Darby II (1711 – 1763) was the second Abraham Darby in three generations of an English Quaker family that played a role in the Industrial Revolution.
When Abraham Darby II took over in 1745, in part owing to the lucrative production of cannon for the armaments trade following the outbreak of war with Spain in the War of the Austrian Succession (1739-46), the Coalbrookdale Company was in a rude state of financial health.
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5 de nov. de 2019 · Englishmen Abraham Darby (1678 to 1717) invented coke smelting in 1709 and, advanced the mass production of brass and iron goods. Coke smelting replaced charcoal with coal in metal foundries during the process of refining metals; this was important to Britain's future since charcoal at that time was becoming scarce and was more expensive.
In 1779, Abraham Darby III and John Wilkinson built the world's first iron bridge. It spanned the gorge of the Severn River around the corner from Coalbrookdale. The bridge's roadway was supported by an arch of five iron ribs, each of which had been cast in two halves.
